Robert Matthews

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Can you drink too much water? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Are there traces of medicines in drinking water?

How do dinosaur footprints get fossilised? © Getty

How do dinosaur footprints get fossilised?

Are all the world’s oceans at the same level? © Getty

Are all the world’s oceans at the same level?

I just bought a lovely new car, so why is the smell of it making me feel sick? © Getty

Everyday science

I just bought a lovely new car, so why is the smell of it making me feel sick?

What’s the oldest invention that we still use today? © Dan Bright

Everyday science

What’s the oldest invention that we still use today?

When I'm ill, should I just let my fever burn itself out? © Getty

When I’m ill, should I just let my fever burn itself out?

How do two gases combine to make liquid water? © Getty Images

Everyday science

How do two gases combine to make liquid water?

Why does light leave the position from which it is created? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Why does light leave the position from which it is created?

Why is traffic on my commute better on Friday mornings? © Getty Images

Everyday science

Why is traffic on my commute better on Friday mornings?

Should you give the kiss of life to someone having a heart attack? © Getty

Should you give the kiss of life to someone having a heart attack?

What are gravitons and are they real? © Alamy

Everyday science

What are gravitons, and do they really exist?

Getty © Who really discovered oxygen?

Everyday science

Who really discovered oxygen?

Alamy © Is there any point turning my phone to 'flight mode' on a plane?

Everyday science

Is there any point turning my phone to ‘flight mode’ on a plane?

Getty © If nothing can escape from a singularity, how did the Universe manage it?

If nothing can escape from a singularity, how did the Universe manage it?